CVE-2010-1633

Severity: medium (CVSS 6.4 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2010-06-03 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-264

Description

RSA verification recovery in the EVP_PKEY_verify_recover function in OpenSSL 1.x before 1.0.0a, as used by pkeyutl and possibly other applications, returns uninitialized memory upon failure, which might allow context-dependent attackers to bypass intended key requirements or obtain sensitive information via unspecified vectors. NOTE: some of these details are obtained from third party information.

Affected products

OpenSSL: 1.0.0, 1.0.0-beta1, 1.0.0-beta2, 1.0.0-beta3, 1.0.0-beta4, 1.0.0-beta5

References

http://cvs.openssl.org/chngview?cn=19693
http://cvs.openssl.org/filediff?f=openssl/crypto/rsa/rsa_pmeth.c&v1=1.34&v2=1.34.2.1
http://secunia.com/advisories/40024
http://secunia.com/advisories/57353
http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=ssg1S1004564
http://www.openssl.org/news/secadv_20100601.txt
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/40503
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1313
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=598732
http://cvs.openssl.org/chngview?cn=19693
http://cvs.openssl.org/filediff?f=openssl/crypto/rsa/rsa_pmeth.c&v1=1.34&v2=1.34.2.1
http://secunia.com/advisories/40024

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